<p>As the title portends, the poems in this debut collection are mostly about the many good-byes said in any given life—to a marriage, a familiar home in a long-beloved locale, an elderly father, a threatened landscape—and despite varied subjects and lighter emotions conveyed at times, there is a seriousness in the poems that permits self-reflection. Memories and imagined fears or familial changes are fleshed out through geography, current and culturally-relevant happenings, brands, and expert knowledge of earth science and botany in poems that are at all times highly sensory and delightful.</p>

Various Modes of Departure: Kore Press First Book Award Winner for 2003 (Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Fries, Deborah

Poetry

Kore Press

Poetry. In THE BRIGHT FIELD OF EVERYTHING, Deborah Fries builds upon the long-line, lyric narrative style of her first volume of poetry, Various Modes of Departure, to address familiar themes of place, love, mortality and modern life. Place plays a major role in this collection: from the ennui of a Massachusetts suburb and the transience of a town in shale country to the fresh joy found on a Minnesota hiking trail, Fries nurtures a sensibility shaped by surroundings. Love, however, is most often out of place or ill-timed in this second book, where dolphins shape- shift their way into women's beds, bucks drive does into oncoming traffic and men are as habituated as elephants. Love and loved ones are both constant and ephemeral in these poems, as the body becomes less reliable, friends are lost and yet, as in the field of everything, they remain with us.

The Bright Field of Everything

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Various Modes of Departure: Kore Press First Book Award Winner for 2003 (Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry)

The Bright Field of Everything